Exploring From Quarks To Quasars
When Clyde Tombaugh built his first telescope at the age of 20, he didn’t even know that it was setting him forward on a path that would eventually lead him to discover the first-ever known …
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” It’s February, and it’s raining love all over the globe. Everyone has loved someone deeply at one or another point in their life, and …
Three of the most celebrated and heart-warming love stories in the world of science. Read More »
Suppose you are in space. As far as your position coordinates are concerned, you are free to move in all the possible directions. But, can you do the same for your time coordinate as well? …
Arrow of Time: How Does Science Explain The Direction In Which The Time Moves? Read More »
This article is a part of the series on ‘Basics of Astrophysics’. Read all the articles here. Going by the dictionary definition, a quasar is a massive and extremely remote celestial object that emits large …
What Is A Quasar And Why Is It Called The Most Powerful Object In The Universe? Read More »
On the 19th of July 2020, the Emirates Mars Mission EMM – the first Arab interplanetary mission – was launched in the direction of Mars alongside two other space missions (Tianwen-2020 from China and Mars …
All Eyes On The UAE: The Country’s Space Probe Prepares To Enter The Orbit Of Mars. Read More »
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) Observatory is an array of 30 fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45-meter diameter each. Located near Pune in India, it observes the cosmic wonders at meter wavelength. It …
How Is This Radio Telescope In Pune Changing Our Understanding Of The Universe? Read More »
Today, it’s the 18th anniversary of the fateful day when Columbia’s last space shuttle mission suffered a catastrophic and fatal end on February 1, 2003, taking away the life of its 7 onboard crew members. …
The Columbia Space Disaster: How We Lost Seven Brilliant Astronauts In A Split Second. Read More »
‘This is your prize, Sir. It’s not mine.’This is how the first Pakistani Nobel Laureate, Dr. Abdus Salam, paid tribute to his Indian teacher by handing over his Nobel Prize to him. Well, this is …
The Humble Physicist Who Unified Two of the Four Fundamental Forces in Nature. Read More »
“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of …
35 Years Ago on This Day, Mankind Witnessed One of the Deadliest Space Disasters. Read More »
If you are a 21st-century astronomy enthusiast, then you must have heard Michio Kaku’s name at least once in your life. The author of several best-sellers, including Parallel worlds, Beyond Einstein, and Hyperspace, Michio Kaku …
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